Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

Post by Taniwha » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

holler wrote: post #28

awnird wrote: post #10

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The most likely explanation is that the chase never actually happened, and the police are making it up. We should be long past the point of uncritically believing everything police claim.

There were two helicopters involved, border patrol and tucson police. They also phoned into the FAA as it was going down. They also made visual contact with the light on the underside of the drone: "From what I can tell just from its position light, you know, I would have to imagine it was larger than a quadcopter"

Post by Ancapistani » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 2:22 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #26

BobbyJo wrote: post #22

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The biggest barriers are the law and liability. There is a lot of red tape, and rightfully so. Flying heavy items over residential areas comes with a lot of risk, risk that someone doing so illegally, with an untraceable aircraft, likely would not care about.

And you're 1.) competing against the economics of standard delivery vehicles 2.) Ref: law/liability. At scale you're possibly violating airspace of people's property and, while I don't expect people in non-rural areas to start using them for skeet practice in general, I would expect lots of complaints to the government if they become annoying.

Post by jet_32951 » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 2:28 AM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #27

CamperBob2 wrote: post #16

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Those are crewed, or occasionally towed behind a normal boat. It should be relatively straightforward at this point to build a sub that can navigate entirely by itself.

GPS doesn’t work underwater. Almost all the drone tech navigates by GPS; converting over to an inertial nav system and making that reliable for autonomous underwater operation is a good bit more than “relatively straightforward” I think.

Post by dragonwriter » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #27

CamperBob2 wrote: post #16

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Those are crewed, or occasionally towed behind a normal boat. It should be relatively straightforward at this point to build a sub that can navigate entirely by itself.

GPS doesn’t work underwater. Almost all the drone tech navigates by GPS; converting over to an inertial nav system and making that reliable for autonomous underwater operation is a good bit more than “relatively straightforward” I think.

Post by ben-gy » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC